Cessna Aircraft Newswire

Since Richard Hogan was a boy, watching military planes fly from the Air Force base not far from his home, he's been drawing designs for new aircraft. "He said, 'Richard, your eyes aren't good enough'" to be a pilot .
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Leading business aviation services company Desert Jet is pleased to announce the addition of a third Citation CJ3 to its charter fleet. The addition of this luxurious light jet brings Desert Jet's fleet to ten jet aircraft based throughout Southern California to serve its clientele.
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In a decision likely to have far-reaching effects in the aviation industry, the Third Circuit in Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive Corp. , - F.3d , 2018 WL 5289702 , recently held that state-law claims brought against an aircraft engine manufacturer were not conflict preempted by federal law.
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Continental Motors Group, an AVIC International Holding LTD company, has signed a fleet conversion agreement with Qingdao Jiutian International Flight School. This converts their current fleet of Cessna 172 aircraft equipped with gasoline engines, to Jet-A burning engines manufactured by Continental Motors.
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The FAA has made a determination that the Hoversurf Hoverbike S3 meets the applicability requirements of 103.1 , , and . That makes the device an ultralight aircraft, and it can be flown by someone who does not hold a pilot certificate.
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I'm probably the only person on the planet who remembers an editorial in The New York Times back in 1971 or 1972 criticizing Harold Geneen, the president and CEO of ITT, International Telephone and Telegraph. Over a decade-plus, Geneen had had taken ITT from the 52nd largest company in the United States to the 9th largest.
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Two light aircraft came within just a few metres of each other as they came down to land after neither of the pilots heard the other's radio calls. As a Cessna-152 was landing at Clacton Airfield, Essex, on 23 June, its pilot saw a C42 fly about 10ft above it.
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HE CAN'T legally drive a car yet but this Goodwick teenager took to the skies in a Cessna 150 for his first solo flight just a week after his 16th birthday. At 16 Ysgol Bro Gwaun pupil, Merion John, was delighted to have reached the age where you can legally fly solo in the UK.
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Two trainee pilots involved in a fatal mid-air crash had "limited" opportunity to see each other, an investigation has found. Both two-seater aircraft - a Cessna 152 plane and Guimbal Cabri G2 helicopter - were engaged in training flights with instructors at the time of the crash.
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Charles Welden grew up in Alabama watching a seaplane come and go off of Lake Martin and thinking it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen. He learned to fly and eventually bought a Cessna 150/150 so he could figure out flying seaplanes himself.
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Amanda Curless, 29, is a student pilot at ATP's Daytona Beach, Florida, training center. She completed her first solo on September 25, 2018, and hopes to earn all of her instructor ratings by spring so she can start building the flight time she'll need to become an airline pilot.
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The Embraer Phenom 300E made its world debut last October at the National Business Aviation Association conference and exhibition in Las Vegas. The Embraer Phenom 300 has been an unqualified success since its debut in 2010.
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RAI Jets LLC in Kalamazoo has added a new, larger service door to their main hangar at the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International airport to welcome super mid-size jets into an easily accessible, newly remodeled hangar place to manage or store their aircraft. "Cessna owners are finding RAI to be a safe, dependable alternative to OEMs or larger MROs for their aircraft maintenance," said David Riley, director of operations at RAI Jets.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2018 - ALSIM is happy to announce the sale of an AL172 simulator to Paragon Flight Training in Fort Myers, Florida. This will be the third Alsim simulator in the state of Florida since its US office opened in mid-2017.
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This week, the White House's senior economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, revealed that he thinks that minimum wage is a "terrible idea" at the federal level and he "would argue against" it even at the state and local levels. In making his statements, he cited the old conservative argument that the base wage squelches business growth by adding to the cost of labor.
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Scott McGaugh tells the media about the USS Midway Museum's new permanent exhibit at a press conference on Wednesday. Planes are on display on the flight deck of the retired USS Midway, on display at The Navy Pier in San Diego.
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A flying instructor "immediately dived" to avoid a helicopter on a "collision course" with an aircraft flown by his student, a report said. The Cessna 150 instructor took control when he saw the helicopter at the same level and less than 100m away over Cambridgeshire in May. He said he did not know if the pilot of the helicopter, which has never been traced, saw the nearby aircraft.
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has once again considered whether state law tort claims based on defects in aviation products are preempted by federal law. This time, in a 2-1 decision, the court ruled that an engine manufacturer can be sued over a defective product design even though the aircraft's design was approved by the FAA and the components had a valid type certificate.
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Here in Florida, September was the hottest month on record. Ever. So on Sunday, when the weather finally delivered the fall temperature break, I luxuriated in simply standing in front of the hangar for 10 minutes watching the world go by.
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